Object number1960.9.22

Sampler

Date1775

Artist Marion Legate (Scottish, first quarter of 19th c)

CultureScottish

MediumSilk threads on linen ground

DimensionsSight: 16 7/8 x 12 9/16 in. (42.86 x 31.91 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. James W. Packard (Elizabeth Gillmer, class of 1894)

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Signed Marion Legate

InscribedGive her the fruit of her hands and/ let her own works praise her in/the gates

BibliographyThanks be to my Friends: Selected Samplers from the Collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2004) Sampler ("Give her the fruit of her hands...")Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Thanks be to my Friends: Selected Samplers from the Collection of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center," June 5-July 18, 2004
DescriptionMarion Legate's undated work is an alphabet, pictorial, and verse sampler featuring a 5 bay, central door, ashlar house or school house with a hip roof of patterned slate, 4 regularly spaced doric columns, a 2 story pedimented gable over double front doors, four over four sash windows, a sidewalk in a honeycomb pattern, and a white picket fence enclosing a grassy lawn. Above the house are two rows of crowns and initials, and regularly spaced motifs including baskets, flowers and a matching pair of flowering trees. Below the house is an alphabet and an unusual ligature. The composition is surrounded by a small frame-like border with regular serpentine and geometric floral elements. Colors are grey, green, red, white, black and rust. The sampler composition of a large house with fence and grassy lawn

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